THE ODDSYour odds are really good If you’re young and healthy And when you’re young You do risky things all the time You might have taken a bigger risk Just this weekend A new drug… a fast car… Of course, you might kill gran That would be a bummer It’s...

THE MEMORY OF LIGHT Let me try to explain what I don’t understand I was a scarecrow in a barren land  No corn, no wheat, not even weeds No hat, no coat, not even straw for a body Just bones, a wooden cross staked in the ground  Then you smiled, and I...

WHEN MORNING COMES Christmas morning’s not so bad for meThe night goes on forever – by the time The morning comes, i’ve lived a thousand livesWithout you and the heart grows numbI know it’s wrong to want you on this dayWhen morning comes, i close my...

STARCHILDThe problem is you sparkle You can’t hide the inner light You could never be invisible Desire washes over you And dries into a second skin Walk in the sun and it shrinks Disco lights do the same thing Sometimes it’s hard to breath When all you...

OKAY HERE’S THE STORY SO FARYou fell in loveOr at least went along with somebody falling in love with youAnd it went a little further than most things had been going latelyPartly because he had a lot to offer: a ticket to the big city, an introduction,...

THE VALLEY The valley is so deepThe hills become mountainsThe mountains, cloudsAnd still the valley goes down No river has carved this bottomless crease In the fabric of the universe No other foot has trod, only yours And the way down goes on until The...

WHY I LOVE YOUR SMILEUp the street at the end of the block, the worldWould take a strange and wild fairy tale turnThe asphalt would crumble, the sidewalk would curlRound a cedar tree and disappear in fernsAnd nettles and needles and leaves. All things...

(trigger warning) WHISPER This poem is for you, only for youI promise I had to write it downDig a hole in the sand and whisper it to the earthOnly the reeds will know the truth. I promise I can’t get it out of my head That you were in your secret...

WHAT SHE SAID I could have any man i wantedI am slim and pretty and self-confidentEvery man at the concert stared at me I find fault with what you doWhen you are mean to meYou find fault with who i amWhat i am, i am oldI am wrinkled. You are cruel 

SYMPHONY You have a smile like a song, like a symphonyLike a novel with a thousand charactersAnd a million secrets, like a newborn ponyOn stilt like legs, and i am embarrassed forThe way i can’t take my eyes off youFor a minute, for second, for an ever...